New Zealand papers are reporting the biggest drug bust in the small nation’s history.
According to varsity.co.nz, Auckland police are claiming to have seized drugs worth US$85 million dollars.
The seizure includes a whopping 95 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine and 150 killograms of pseudoephedrine.
The drugs were hidden among bags of plaster in incoming shipping containers on two seperate shipments during the last few weeks and police are saying that the drugs were bound of New Zealand’s illicit drug market.
“It is a new
dimension in the New Zealand drug scene because up to this time most
drugs of this major amount would be in transit to an offshore country.
That’s not the case here, we’re quite clear that these drugs were
intended for distribution in the New Zealand market place,” Simon
Williamson of Customs says.
In related raids, the police also seized $60,000 in cash, a money counting machine, several fake passports and firearms.
The significance of the raid lay in the fact that it now seems New Zealand is hitting the radar of major international drug syndicates, a distinction the small nation had, until now, largely avoided.
